"Tis the season for graduations and my latest "20 lessons" list
‘Tis the season for graduations, new jobs and life transitions. It’s also the season for my annual updated “20 lessons” list. A number of years ago, I started a list of professional life lessons for a presentation to a group of college seniors. Since then, I like to revisit and update this list annually as a way to reflect on the past year. Recently, I’ve helped several folks fine tune their resumes and cover letters for “second career” job changes. Over the past year, I’ve approached this with a “let’s figure this out together” perspective instead of a “I have all the answers” perspective. The reason? I don’t have all the answers (see item #2 below). That’s a great lesson for me to remember for life in general and the perfect addition to the top of this year’s list. It’s been interesting to see how the style of resume writing has kind of come full circle back to the simple format used when I first graduated from college. Today, AI and Applicant Tracking S...